Bamboos, regarded as therapeutic agents in ethnomedicine, have been used to inhibit inflammation and enhance natural immunity for a long time in Asia, and there are many bamboo associated fungi with medical and edible value. In the present study, a total of 350 fungal strains were isolated from the uncommon moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) seeds for the first time. The molecular diversity of ...

The physiological patterns, the sequence polymorphisms of the internal transcriber spacer (ITS), and intergenic spacer regions (IGS) of the rRNA genes and the antifungal susceptibility profile were evaluated for their ability to identify Trichosporon spp. and their specificity for the identification of 49 clinical isolates of Trichosporon spp. Morphological and biochemical methodologies were un...

Malaria transmission in the Southern Colombian state of Putumayo continues despite the absence of traditional vector species, except for the presence of Anopheles darlingi near the southeastern border with the state of Amazonas. In order to facilitate malaria vector incrimination in Putumayo, 2445 morphologically identified Anopheles females were tested for natural infection of Plasmodium vivax...

Administrations, government organs, judiciary courts always faced the problem of defining limits in transcription practices. Nowadays corpus linguistics and computational linguistics have focused their attention on spoken corpora as indispensable tools for descriptive linguistics, as well as for applied purposes (in speech technologies, such as text-to-speech and speech recognition, in dialogue...

OBJECTIVE To examine the shorthand publications of Sir William Richard Gowers. BACKGROUND Gowers developed an almost obsessional interest in Pitman shorthand. During the later part of his active career (1894-1910), the bulk of his professional writing, comprising nearly 100 articles, was printed entirely in Pitman shorthand in the Phonographic Record of Clinical Teaching and Medical Science. ...

BACKGROUND The current reference test for the detection of S. mansoni in endemic areas is stool microscopy based on one or more Kato-Katz stool smears. However, stool microscopy has several shortcomings that greatly affect the efficacy of current schistosomiasis control programs. A highly specific multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the Schistosoma internal transcriber...

This paper explores the usage of antepenultimate and penultimate stress in 1st person plural past tense verb forms in Polish. Although Polish generally has penultimate stress, prescriptive grammars treat these verb forms as an exception, assigning antepenultimate stress. It has been argued elsewhere that penultimate stress is possible in these forms, although in colloquial speech. Data from 40 ...

An IPA-based system has been agreed upon for labelling Swedish prosody. In the present study this system is evaluated by assessing the inter-transcriber reliability in prominence labelling of nine expert subjects. The study also explores the acoustic (F0) basis for observed variability in the assignment of focus accent, the highest prominence label. INTRODUCTION Recently, as large corpora of pr...

This paper formulates a proposal for standardising spoken language transcription, as practised inconversation analysis, sociolinguistics, dialectology and related fields, with the help of the TEIguidelines. Two areas relevant to standardisation are identified and discussed: first, the macrostructure of transcriptions, as embodied in the data models and file formats of transcription ...